NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q and AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 0 month(s) later
1079.8x more texture fill rate: 442.3 GTexel/s vs 409.6 GTexel / s
2.4x more pipelines: 9728 vs 4096
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 14 nm
2.5x lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 375 Watt

Launch date	2023 vs 13 July 2017
Texture fill rate	442.3 GTexel/s vs 409.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	9728 vs 4096
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt vs 375 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

Around 49% higher core clock speed: 1382 MHz vs 930 MHz
Around 10% higher boost clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1455 MHz
Around 8% higher memory clock speed: 1890 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Core clock speed	1382 MHz vs 930 MHz
Boost clock speed	1600 MHz vs 1455 MHz
Memory clock speed	1890 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q	AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled
Essentials
Architecture	Ada Lovelace	GCN 5.0
Code name	AD103	Vega 10
Launch date	2023	13 July 2017
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Launch price (MSRP)		$1,489
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1455 MHz	1600 MHz
Core clock speed	930 MHz	1382 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm	14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	442.3 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	28.31 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	28.31 TFLOPS
Pipelines	9728	4096
Pixel fill rate	163.0 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	442.3 GTexel/s	409.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt	375 Watt
Transistor count	45900 million	12,500 million
Floating-point performance		13,107 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	2x 8-pin
Length		267 mm
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	16 GB
Memory bandwidth	448.0 GB/s	483.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 bit	2048 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective	1890 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	HBM2